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ISBN10: 1982146036
ISBN13: 9781982146030
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781982146030
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Aug 17 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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Marie Claire's 2020 Books to Add To Your Reading List A beautiful, unapologetic, and unwatered-down...dystopian [novel] that holds a sobering mirror up to our own world (Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of the acclaimed novel Scarborough. In the wake of the escalating global battle for economic and social justice, award-winning author Catherine Hernandez has crafted a dystopian tale of love, friendship, and resistance set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future. Crosshairs births an indelible landscape of memory and uncertainty as Kay, the gay son of Filipino and Jamaican immigrants, is on the run from a fascist regime operated by a paramilitary group known as the Boots. Those who fall at the bottom of the Boots' social stratification are rendered Other and subsequently sent to work camps. They suffer violence that pushes them further into this otherness, although the new regime labels these sweeping acts the Renovation. Kay's account of these events is a silent letter to his lover, Evan, from whom he is separated when the Renovation's plans fall rapidly into place. When Kay finds himself on the run again, he lands in the front lines of a civilian-led movement called the Resistance. There, he discovers the answer to his question: I wonder what could possibly happen in my lifetime that would have me running. What would mean enough to me to fight against it? Crosshairs grapples with a matrix of oppressive systems perpetuated by environmental disaster and state-sanctioned violence. Amid the flames of hatred and distrust, marginalized communities rise against the repressive structures that see them as anything but human, and with this, a thrilling message of hope is forged.
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